WOOOO! I just beat ________!!!!!

[Destin]

I just beat web of shadows. And now to beat it 2 more times for achievements. Since I am the awesome... (dork)

[Compound]

Just finished the Endless Setlist 2. I don't recommend doing it. For one thing, it reminds you of how many lousy songs there are in Rock Band 2. Secondly- 8 hours.

Well, off to ice my wrist...

[Invader_quirk]

I just "beat" Hotel Dusk Room 215. It's more of a novel, really, and a very good read.

[Destin]

Just finished the Endless Setlist 2. I don't recommend doing it. For one thing, it reminds you of how many lousy songs there are in Rock Band 2. Secondly- 8 hours.

Well, off to ice my wrist...

What is wrong with you!!!... I tried with 3 of my friends to beat it but we gave up after 3 hours.

[SmilinJackRoss]

Finally beat the end level of Killzone 2.  No other part of the game took me more than a few tries to get past, but this end boss fight was hard as hell.  Well, the actual boss was pretty easy, once I got to him....it's the 5,000 other guys that swarm out in front of him that I couldn't get through.

[Invader_quirk]

I recently beat Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and Ocarina of Time.

[SJP]

Though I'd beaten it before, I recently got the patch to get the trophies for Uncharted, and realized I would have to play through the game all over again.  Much better this time around, though, since Crushing was already unlocked, and beating the game on the highest difficulty setting gives you the rewards for completing the other difficulties as well (I did this the hard way the first time; played through the game four times to unlock all the stuff).  But things get a lot easier once you remember certain ways of doing them, like the end at the church.  I was getting so frustrated until I remembered: the church door is open, and you can run outside, and pick enemies off one by one.  I still can't believe I forgot that one.

[gojikranz]

Gunstar heroes.  my brother downloaded it on his wii i had beat it way back when on genesis still remebered all the tricks.  its really pretty much my favorite game of all time behind sonic 2.  they just down make me like they used too.  my little bro even agrees that its pretty much da bomb.

[BBQ Platypus]

I just finished Knights of the Old Republic II.  My thoughts:

I honestly wasn't expecting KotOR 2 to be better than the first one, but it was in just about every respect.

The gameplay was slightly improved, and the voice acting was excellent, but neither of those are the most notable positive quality about the game.  No, the best quality of the game is the writing.  In retrospect, it's not surprising, since Obsidian pretty much rose from the ashes of Black Isle.  I mean, these people made Fallout (which happens to be one of my favorite RPGs of all time), among other things.  I've heard nothing but good things about Planescape: Torment, for instance - I just might use some of the money I got for my birthday to buy a copy of it.

There were a few moments where the writing was so impressive that the only thing I could say about them was "Holy shit!"  Most notable of these was the part where you return to the Jedi Enclave, discover your nature as a black hole that must be cut off from the Force, and Kreia steps in, berates them for being idiots, and kills them all.  It wasn't so much the fact that Kreia turns out to be evil (I pretty much figured that one out beforehand), or even the fact that all the Jedi you fought to save are now dead (though I certainly didn't see that coming).  It's the fact that it used the very structure of CRPGs as a plot point and made it convincing.

Now, I'd heard that the ending had been incomplete due to pressure for a Christmas release.  And boy, they aren't kidding.  There are several loose ends lying around.  However, the ending was mostly finished, I think.  And that's worse, in a way, than if it weren't even close to being finished.  If Obsidian had been given just a few more months to tie everything together - make it so you see all the supporting characters at least one more time, for instance - then they would have had one of the best RPGs of all time.  Just give the character a chance to talk to the rest of the characters on the Ebon Hawk another time, add an agonizing personal touch to the ending, and you have an emotional, bittersweet ending every bit as powerful as the end of The Empire Strikes Back.  If not MORE so.

Eat a bag of dicks, LucasArts.

Also, Master Vrook is voiced by Ed Asner.  I didn't know that.  I guess I was too focused on what a dick he was (in BOTH games).  From now on, I shall refer to him as Master Cosgrove.

"Hey, Revan!  Want to go out for a snowcone?"

"DO I!?"



Though if it had really been Cosgrove, he could have stopped Kreia from sucking the Force out of him by telling her to "cut it out."

[Nick]

You worded my thoughts on the game much more eloquently BBQ. I loved the game too. 

[BBQ Platypus]

You worded my thoughts on the game much more eloquently BBQ. I loved the game too. 

Though apparently there's a sizable number of people who don't agree.  I can't possibly see how anyone would have any problem with it other than the lack of a complete ending.

[Pak-Man]

The ending was my only beef. The journey was so worth it, though, that I had no real complaints all told. But then, I played through Super Mario 64 where the ending was

Let's all have some cake!

[Nekrose]

Fallout 3. Again. now i just have to wait until DLC 3.

[spaceforarent]

Resistance: Retribution. Really quite good for a shooter on PSP. The control scheme works well for not having that second analog stick. The only bad things I've read in reviews about it have been bad script/voice acting, which I partially agree with, and that the aim assist makes the game too simplified. You can turn aim assist off though (which I did).
I'm working on the skill points now...some of them are pretty rough.

[mrbasehart]

I just finished Knights of the Old Republic II.  My thoughts:

I played it recently too.  It's a great game, which honours the Star Wars universe, but seems more mature and reflective than anything the movies have done.  There are some really great moments in the game too, like the murder investigation or the entire set of missions on the ancient Sith homeworld.  Yeah, the ending is a kind of "WTF?" but it's one of my favourites.  And to think what they could do with that game now, with the kind of graphics that game deserves - oh wait, they're doing the MMO.  *sigh*

At least Mass Effect is similar enough.  And Obsidian are working on their own game, called Alpha Protocol, which I heard was a "spy version of Mass Effect." It's out this year some time.